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10 Small Towns in the US for Art Lovers
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Mary Magdalene Portrait Attributed to Raphael on View in France
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Gap in the Armor of Baldur’s Gate and 5e
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor...
a year ago
This week we’re taking a bit of a detour to critique some video-game armor, in this case the armor of Baldur’s Gate III. I have been meaning to do a general critique of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition armor system from a historical perspective for a while, and the massive...
Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing...
over a year ago
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
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Two Colonizers in South Africa: The British vs. The Dutch
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What Was the Third Council of Constantinople?
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Siege of Yorktown: The Final Battle of the American Revolution
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Hans Jonas on Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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‘Straight Acting’ by Will Tosh review
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Paul Klee: The Life & Work of an Iconic Artist
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Dreams of Space -...
Rocket Divers (1962)
So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers...
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So a minor piece of juvenile "space fiction" today. This little juvenile story is about scuba divers adventures and in this book they help out the divers who retrieve re-entry capsules. It has bad guys and secret submarines and space monkeys and plenty of adventure. Unfortunately...
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Who Were the 43 Group?
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Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Monadology: Do Souls Exist in Space?
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Who Won the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House?
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How Did Nero Become the Emperor of Rome?
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What Are the Top 9 Historical Sites in Budapest?
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Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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Celebrate MLK with 'Agape'
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Drunk by Edward Slingerland: 5 Reasons Why People Get Intoxicated
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Who Was Sayed Idries Shah?
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Flashbak
Found Vintage Photobooth Pictures
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“Collecting the photobooth strip (approximate size 8 inches by 1.5 inches) has been an adventure,” says vintage photography collector Robert E. Jackson. “If you see or own an amazing photobooth, you can pretty much figure it used to be part of a 4-pose strip. The individual...
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
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Historical maps probably helped cause World War I
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Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963)
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets.
Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself
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over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes.
Many of the...
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10 Historic Small Towns in Arizona You Must Visit
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7 of the Biggest Palaces Ever Built
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plus, the Nok Neolithic culture.
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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The Metropolitan to Return Pieces to Cambodia
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How the South Became Republican
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Volva: What Was the Role of Witches in the Viking World?
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What Is the Role of First Ladies in US Elections?
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What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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Great Zimbabwe: Center of a Mysterious African Civilization
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5 Key Tenets of Rastafarian: Between Zion and Babylon
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Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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TheCollector
Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
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Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History?
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 1, 2023
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of...
a year ago
Fireside this week! Depending on the order that things get written, we may have a few weeks of ‘break’ from our How to Roman Republic series, but do not fret: we will finish it. The one thing I am looking to ‘slot in’ as it were is a look at the armor of Baldur’s Gate … Continue...
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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3 Debunked Rumors About Anne Boleyn
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4 Key Works by James Joyce You Need to Read
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How Does Aristotle Conceptualize the Soul?
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10 Things an Art Lover Should Do in Paris
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The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
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Kurt Vonnegut’s drawings and other doodles
“My own means of making a living is essentially clerical, and hence tedious and constipating. The...
7 months ago
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8 Facts about The Book of Enoch and its Content
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History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Overview
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The 5 Most Influential Modern Political Philosophers
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere?
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIa: Peak Pike-Phalanx
This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the...
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This is the first part of the third part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa) look at the triumph of the Roman legions in the third and second century over the Hellenistic armies of the heirs of Alexander. Last time, we looked at some of the operational and strategic...
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The Genealogy of Morals: Nietzsche vs. Morality
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Operation Paperclip: What the US Did With Nazi Scientists After WWII
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4 Famous Explorers from the Age of Exploration
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9 Times Virginia Woolf Made a Lasting Impact on Art
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What Are Salvador Dalí’s Composition Techniques?
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Where is the Tomb of Alexander the Great?
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The “Arch”: Who Was Desmond Tutu?
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What Was ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, or ‘The Hammer of Witches’?
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10 Historic College Towns in America You Should Visit
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Indiana University’s Plan for Selling Art to Fund Dorm Renovations
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7 Outrageous Cases of Art Vandalism That May Shock You
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 3
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an...
over a year ago
From the same 1953 Women's Day issue comes my final posting from this "space packed" issue. For an early Christmas present to yourself or a craft project to make the perfect present for someone else, here are the plans for making some nifty space helmets!
History Today Feed
Moving With the Times?
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in New York
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Young Technician December, 1957
This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young...
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This is an issue of a young adult magazine published just 3 months after the first Sputnik. Young Technician was a scientific news and technology magazine. I realize that most of you have no Russian but the illustrations are a nice picture of the beginning of a new space...
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Why Is the Matterhorn So Famous?
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Should Drugs be Criminalized?
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Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
TheCollector
What is Impasto? A Guide to the Impasto Painting Technique
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Going Underground: gasping for life on the Tokyo Subway
Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo...
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Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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What Is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?
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Van Dyck Rare Drawing Could Sell for $1.2 Million at Christie’s
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What Is Appropriation in Art?
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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Gala Dalí: Salvador Dali’s Mysterious Muse
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30...
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At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire...
TheCollector
What Is the Shadow According to Carl Jung?
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African History...
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a complete history of an African monument
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What Caused the First Opium War in China?
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What Was the First Triumvirate?
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Barbara Kruger: Verbalized Resistance in 6 Works
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Rome’s Greatest Defeat? Hannibal’s Victory at Cannae
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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How Does the Electoral College Work?
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Madame de Pompadour: History’s Greatest Mistress
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Summary of changes for April 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April.
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Telstar: Communication Break-through by Satellite (1962)
Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
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Sorry to skip a week, it may happen again next week.
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Who Invented the Refrigerator?
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Who Am I, Really? A Philosophical Quest for Self-Discovery
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Who’s Who of the Kennedys: 9 Notable Members
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Francis Bacon Portrait of George Dyer to Sell at Sotheby’s
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Finland in World War II: A Non-Fascist Axis Power?
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Hanging Out With Rock And Pop Stars at The Zenith of Their Careers In The 1980s
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
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And what happens when we don’t?
TheCollector
$18-Million Monet Heads to Auction
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The Harrowing History of the Trail of Tears
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History Today Feed
Medieval Icelandic Feasts
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TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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10 Women Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
11 months ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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What Is Your True Self According to Carl Jung?
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How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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What Are the Unconditional Biblical Prophecies?
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened?
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Should We Own Stuff?
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Collections: Roman Infantry Tactics: Why the Pilum and not a Spear?
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking...
a year ago
This week’s post is intended to answer a question which came up in response to the last post looking at the most common type of Mediterranean spear, which to put it simply is: what is up with the odd Roman heavy infantry kit built around a sword and two javelins (albeit two...
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Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg?
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Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Dr Alun Withey
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
over a year ago
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
TheCollector
Jean Lannes: The French Achilles of the Napoleonic Wars
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
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We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024
Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads
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The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Moses’ Wife: Who Was Zipporah?
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Van Gogh ‘Sunflowers’ Targeted Again After Protestors Jailed
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Napoleon’s 5 Greatest Marshals: The Best of the Best
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Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen
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Why Is Nicosia the Last Divided Capital of Cyprus?
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1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston
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British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
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Bim-Bom: How a Soviet Clown Duo Defied the Soviets
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5 Inspirational Women From the Second World War
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Which Presidents Are in Your Wallet? The Faces of US Dollar Bills
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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The Conquest of Space (1962?)
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What Are the 5 Tallest Statues in the World?
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6 Key Battles of the Wars of the Roses
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7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions
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Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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Who Was the Real Mona Lisa?
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What Was the Beatles’ First Hit?
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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New York’s Jewish Museum Workers Ratified Their First Contract
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Техника Молодежи (Youth Technology) Issue 4 (1973 )
“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
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“ХОРОВОД КОСМИЧЕСКИХ ЛАБОРАТОРИЙ ‘Round Dance of Space Laboratories’
A re-run from a few years ago. I really like this 1973 issue of Youth Technology. The issue was dedicated to Soviet past and future in space. It has some great illustration of what they had done and what they...
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What Was Négritude?
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7 Facts You Need to Know About Brutalism
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Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India
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Why Did Rome Fall?
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& Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
Overcoming Bias
No Meta Status Orgs
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What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
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Fireside Friday, May 31, 2024 (Academic Departments)
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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7 Important Baroque Paintings You Should Know
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7 Ancient Greek Temples You Should Know
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Who Was Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
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American Dream Revisited: Affluence & Turbulence in 1950s America
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Was the Trojan Horse Real?
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What Composition Techniques Did Tamara de Lempicka Use?
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10 Famous Saints Associated With Christmas
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Who Was Saint Athanasius?
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plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.
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Billy the Kid: The Incredible Story of America’s Favorite Outlaw
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Rare Photographs of Siouxsie and the Banshees in Japan, 1982
Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The...
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Siouxsie and the Banshees toured Japan playing three gigs in Tokyo late-March, early-April 1982. The band had recently released their fourth album Juju (1981) and were working on their fifth A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (1982). While other punk bands had imploded, Siouxsie and the...
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2x2 geopolitics
Wars and ideology simplified
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How do we know what’s True? How can we decipher what is real among lies?
“Triple Threat at Suez Canal, Panama Canal, & Mexico Attack Freight”
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Get to Know Claudius Ptolemy & His Geocentric Model of the Universe
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5 Female Philosophers That You Should Know
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8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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Action! 4 Films Inspired by History’s Natural Disasters
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Three Men Convicted of Stealing Ming Dynasty Vase
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Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic
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Margaret Fuller’s Dazzling Life: Interview with Dr. John T. Matteson
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How Did Aristotle Shape Ancient Greek Philosophy?
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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How Did Socrates Shape Classical Greek Philosophy?
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9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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What Is Theodicy?
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What Was Aristotle’s Opinion on Metaphysics?
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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
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‘Catland’ by Kathryn Hughes review
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)
The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great...
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The Smithsonian sets the scene for this Christmas card sent in 1933, a few years into the Great Depression. They write: Despite the glum economic situation, the Pinero family used a brown paper bag to fashion an inexpensive holiday greeting card. They penned a clever rhyme and...
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10 Must-See Monuments & Memorials on the National Mall in DC
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10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs
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How Found Objects Became Central to Modern Art
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8 Unmissable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia
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Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle?
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Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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The Female Detectives of Victorian Britain
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A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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Naturalism, Realism, and Impressionism: Three Movements Explained
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French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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Did Bruce Lee Invent Mixed Martial Art?
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City
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Battle of Himera: Carthage vs. Ancient Greeks of Sicily
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Working in Ancient Egypt: 5 Interesting Professions
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The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great
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Democracy
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The Footsteps of Finn MacCool: The Landscape of Giants in Ireland
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The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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10 Things to Do in London if You Love Art
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6 Empires that Conquered Ancient Egypt
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3 Depictions of Saint Jerome: Albrecht Dürer’s Fascination
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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Oldest Ancient Temple Unearthed in Cyprus
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Wallis Simpson: A Look Beyond Scandal
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What Were Julius Caesar’s Greatest Achievements
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With Harvard Professor James Hankins and 'History of Philosophy without any gaps' Peter Adamson.
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor
This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Greco-Scythian Artifacts Seized by Spanish Police
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Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Who Was Canadian Artist Emily Carr?
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John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The...
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Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles...
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Uncovering 5 Portraits From the Renaissance
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London’s Old Master Sales Squeak by Expectations
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Nature Aided in the Creation of the Great Sphinx of Giza?
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Why Was the Statue of Christ the Redeemer Built?
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Should We Be Afraid of Technology?
Lessons from Prometheus and Frankenstein
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